Seminar discusses upgrading China’s first Tibetan-language AI model to promote ‘ethnic integration’

China held a seminar on Sep 5 in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, to discuss issues such as improving Tibetan artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and expanding the application of its Tibetan large language model (LLM) into multilingual simultaneous interpretation. And the creators of China’s first Tibetan-language AI mode, DeepZang, have pledged to speed up upgrades aimed at promoting ethnic integration, reported the scmp.com Oct 7, citing the state-run portal Chinanews.com.

Tenzin Norbu, founder of CHOKNOR, which developed DeepZang, has said his research team will continue to upgrade Tibetan-language AI and expand its applications, using technology to support interethnic exchanges and promote digital and intelligent development in ethnic minority regions.

DeepZang was launched in March, roughly three years after the unveiling of Monlam AI, a Tibetan-language LLM developed by Monlam Tibetan IT Research Centre, a non-profit organisation based in Dharamsala – the Indian hillside town that has hosted the 14th Dalai Lama and the Tibetan administration-in-exile since 1960.

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